Memories And Movements - Borders And Communities In Banni

Memories and Movements is an ethnographic account of present-day banni society, where the rhetoric of ‘change and development’ have made inroads quietly but surely. The author also tells the story of the entrepreneurial success and resultant social mobility of a hitherto ‘untouchable’ community. In presenting a picture of Banni's complex, tiered society, she shows how its people navigate social borders on an everyday basis and transcend territorial borders through memory, song and story.